Their main engine is 1.5GW, so they can time travel with a flux capacitor at 88 miles per hour, if they can make a car speedometer work in outer space. There was a school project that created a website about Mankato MN, including whale watching etc. saying whales swim up the river to southern Minnesota in the middle of USA and can be seen every year. After they launched the site, people from out of the state actually visited the city hoping to see whales.

Will the hardware and software be open source, I didn't see it mentioned.

______Rob

Hypothetically the ship gets constructed and worked. They started their warp drive and were spotted by nearby Vulcan ship and greeted by them. Then the Vulcans asked this exact question and the response was "Well, wealthy corporates own all patents and secrets". Vulcans all left thinking this race was not worth their share of knowledge. I think this might convince them to go open source.

Hypothetically the ship gets constructed and worked. They started their warp drive and were spotted by nearby Vulcan ship and greeted by them. Then the Vulcans asked this exact question and the response was "Well, wealthy corporates own all patents and secrets". Vulcans all left thinking this race was not worth their share of knowledge. I think this might convince them to go open source.

Is that before or after a Klingon Bird of Prey delivers the humpback to Mankato?

... it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could somedayfacilitate a police state. -- Bruce Schneier